Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for August 23, 2024

Ah, the good ol’ days.

um…teachers don’t do this anymore?!?! o_O

Kids in the UK today deal with a lot worse.

Schools certainly have changed since Andy was at school. They have also changed since Buster – Son of Andy Capp was at school. As I have said several times, I enjoyed reading the UK comic Buster from 1973 to 1979 and my favourite strips included “Rent-a-Ghost Ltd” and “Ivor Lott and Tony Broke” which were both drawn by Reg Parlett who also drew “Buster’s Diary”. Another of my favourite strips in Buster was “Faceache” which was drawn by the excellent artist Ken Reid who created “Roger the Dodger” for The Beano in 1953 and “Frankie Stein” for Wham in 1964. I discovered Frankie Stein in the comic Shiver and Shake which lasted from 1973-4. The revived version of Frankie Stein – by Robert Nixon who had also taken over Reid’s “Roger the Dodger” strip – continued in a comic called Whoopee!!

Today its the teachers defending themselves from the kids.

Did Mum pack my Glock with my lunch, I hope?

Well, I TOLD Crenshaw it was MY turn on the swings….

My school was so tough that it was named “Our Lady Of The Broken Windows”

I don’t think it’s improved in any way.

Now they are all grown up and the fights are happening in the bars and on the soccer field!

So we know what Andy learned in school.

The problem with schools these days is that parents think they know more than the teachers.

And Andy went to a parochial school taught by nuns!

Just before I started college my dad warned me to be prepared to meet a lot of weirdos. What he didn’t tell me was that most of those weirdos were going to be professors.

It’s really saying something about someone when Andy complains about them being rotten.

Andy was fighting as well as the teachers.

Andy was fighting as well as the teachers